By Jordan

I’m not one to get political, but as someone who’s very existence is essentially a political statement at this point I am allowed to do it one time for the sake of this article and also because it’s Pride month because the last reason why the White Sox can’t hurt me is that the world is already doing so. For millions of terrible reasons, there is a significant chunk of people who hate me because I’m trans. Many of them want me dead. The White Sox are my respite from that. I can cut through the bullshit that is being trans to watch a baseball game. Everyone’s tweets about the White Sox, good or bad, help me cope with the fact that trans people are being legislated out of existence by many states in the US. I can see tweets about the Sox and not have to see tweets about political threats to my life. I’ve made friends who accept and love me because of the White Sox, and while I hate that everyone else is upset by them I can’t be. They’re too much like me. And that’s why for Pride month I’m teaming up with the Chicago White Sox. (Not really though, but like email me if you want to).

Now what does being trans have to do with not getting mad when a talented baseball team keeps losing? Weirdly, a lot. Some of it has to do with the fact that I took about a 5 year gap from watching any sport because I was so depressed and I didn’t know why (Spoiler alert: it’s because I was trans and didn’t know it), so I didn’t have to sit through some of the worst teams the White Sox put out there but I was still around for some pretty bad teams. Another part of it is that I see a lot of myself in the White Sox right now with respect to where I am in my transition. I have a lot of expectations I put on myself that I thought I would have accomplished by now and haven’t. I thought I’d have bigger boobs, we thought the White Sox were to win the World Series, both things are probably going to need us to spend a significant chunk of money to make it work.  I want to be able to talk like a girl, we all want the players to not get injured, both things are things that come with practice and stretching (Perfect parallels here I know). I sympathize with the Sox, they want to be good because they have all the potential to be but they are on a team whose genetics (the front office and the general history of the franchise) are working against them. I have a penis, the White Sox have Tony LaRussa as a Manager, both things are things that are unwanted. In all honesty the 2022 White Sox are really just a trans woman disguised as a baseball team.